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Libraries: Databases and Indexes : A to Z

Databases and Indexes - A through A

A To Zoo

A great tool to help teachers find children's picture books by subject. Users can browse the 2400 subject headings or search for a specific topic. Use this tool in conjunction with CLICnet to identify local library holdings.
 
ABI/Inform Trade & Industry

This database indexes and abstracts over 1300 journal titles, including over 600 full-text journals that provide users with the latest industry news, product and competitive information and marketing trends about specific industries.
 
Academic Search Premier

A good place to start your research, Academic Search Premier is the world's largest academic, multi-disciplinary database. It provides full text for over 8,400 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals.
 
ACM Digital Library

ACM Digital Library provides bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews, and the full-text for articles published in ACM periodicals and proceedings since its founding in 1947. ACM is the premier society in computing and a major force in advancing the skills of information technology professionals worldwide.
 
Advertising Redbooks

This directory provides information on advertising agencies and companies in the United States and Canada that spend at least $200,000 on advertising. Company entries contain company address, products, advertising expenditures, key personnel and advertising agency. Information on advertising agencies includes clients, specialization, personnel and approximate annual billings.
 
African American Studies Center

The Oxford African American Studies Center (OAASC) contains over 7500 articles on all aspects of the African-American experience along with images, primary sources, time lines, maps, tables, and a Learning Center full of ready-reference resources.
 
AGRICOLA

Index to materials in the fields of agriculture, energy, food science, geography, and nutrition. 1970- .
 
Alt HealthWatch

Alt HealthWatch is a database focusing on articles from the perspectives of alternative, holistic, complementary and integrated approaches to medical treatment and general health. The database offers full-text articles from more than 180 sources; pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts. The database offers sources dating back to 1990.
 
Alternative Press Index

Indexes international and interdisciplinary (mostly left-leaning) journals, newspapers and magazines covering cultural, economic, political & social change. Subjects included are anarchy, feminism, gay and lesbian issues, indigenous peoples and national liberation. The oldest issues are from 1990 and the newest from 2003. While only an index (no full text) there are abstracts for research journals.
 
America: History And Life

Comprehensive coverage of articles from over 2100 journals, book reviews, and dissertations published worldwide on the history and culture of the United States and Canada.
 
American Accounting Association Journals

Access to the journals of the American Accounting Association, which promotes the teaching and research of accounting in the U.S. Journals included: Accounting and the Public Interest, Accounting Horizons, The Accounting Review, Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Behavioral Research in Accounting, Current Issues in Auditing, Issues in Accounting Education, Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting, Journal of Information Systems, Journal of International Accounting Research, Journal of Legal Tax Research, Journal of Management Accounting Research, and the Journal of the American Taxation Association.
 
American Chemical Society Publications

ACS Publications provides full-text access to over 30 journals and other information published by the American Chemical Society.
 
American City Business Journals

Includes the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal and the 39 additional American City Business Journal newspapers; the annual Book of Lists and full access to all web content, including archival material since 1996.
 
 
American National Biography

American National Biography offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation. Available until 7/31/2009.
 
American Periodical Series

APS Online spans over 1,500 titles and 7 million pages of content, from the first American magazines, published in 1741, to the World War II period-200 years of American history as recorded in magazines, journals, and newspapers.
 
American Physical Society

APS publishes leading international physics research journals, including Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics, and the Physical Review series. The Physical Review Online Archive provides access to articles in these journals all the way back to the founding of the Physical Review in 1893.
 
Anchor Bible Dictionary

Available on CD-Rom in the Ireland Library. Full text 6-v. Anchor Bible Dictionary (1987).
 
Annual Reviews

Provides full-text access to several, but not all, of the annual reviews (abstracts only for others) in the biomedical, physical and social sciences.
 
Applied Science & Technology Full Text

Science, engineering & technology, including trade & industrial publications; some full text. 1983- .
 
 
ArchiveGrid

An index to collection information on historical documents, personal papers, organizational records and family histories held by thousands of libraries, museums, and archives.
 
Art Full-text

This database offers full text plus abstracts and indexing of an international array of peer-selected publications - now with expanded coverage of Latin American, Canadian, Asian and other non-Western art, new artists, contemporary art, exhibition reviews, and feminist criticism.
 
Art Index Retrospective

An international database, Art Index Retrospective provides 55 years of indexing to nearly 600 art journals, plus references to important yearbooks and museum catalogs. The fields of decorative, commercial and fine arts are included.
 
ArticleFirst

Contains bibliographic citations for articles listed in the table of contents of more than 11,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Many include abstracts. Updated daily. 1990- .
 
 
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index And Abstracts

ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts is a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional. Updated monthly, ASSIA provides indexes and abstracts covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. 1987-.
 
ATLA Religion Database with ATLAS Serials

Our primary theology and religion index, with 50 plus titles in full-text out of over 400 total indexed, primarily academic journal articles, books, reviews, and essays in collection; international scope. Scriptures search: find articles about passages by citation; browse by Book title, carefully look for applicable verse ranges.